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The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. Politics is back but it’s stranger than ever: join us as we chart a course beyond the age of ’bunga bunga’. Interviews, long-form discussions, docu-series.
/517/ Wonders of the Modern World ft. Pier Paolo Tamburelli
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45 minutes
1 month ago
/517/ Wonders of the Modern World ft. Pier Paolo Tamburelli
On places of ritual.
Architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli talks to Alex about his project to catalogue modern wonders – structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly.
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How has architecture lost its ritual dimension?
Why are these "modern wonders" kitsch? And why are they found the world over, from Munich to Malaysia, South Dakota to Dakar?
Do 'wonders' speak to a world where places remain distinct, and where conflicts and history seem to have returned?
Are disillusioned and cynical postmodern subjects searching for wonder?
Can architecture rebuild society?
Links:
Wonders of the Modern World, Arch+, issue 259
Wonders of the Modern World: Notes for a Research Programme, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Arch+ (pdf attached in patreon)
What's wrong with the primitive hut?, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, San Rocco (pdf attached in patreon)
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